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<h2><a name="SECTION009510000000000000000"></a><a name="mimetools-message-objects"></a>
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7.5.1 Additional Methods of Message Objects
            
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The <tt class="class">Message</tt> class defines the following methods in
addition to the <tt class="class">rfc822.Message</tt> methods:

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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1499' xml:id='l2h-1499' class="method">getplist</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return the parameter list of the <span class="mailheader">Content-Type:</span> header.
This is a list of strings.  For parameters of the form
"<tt class="samp"><var>key</var>=<var>value</var></tt>", <var>key</var> is converted to lower case but
<var>value</var> is not.  For example, if the message contains the header
"<tt class="samp">Content-type: text/html; spam=1; Spam=2; Spam</tt>" then
<tt class="method">getplist()</tt> will return the Python list <code>['spam=1',
'spam=2', 'Spam']</code>.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1500' xml:id='l2h-1500' class="method">getparam</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>name</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return the <var>value</var> of the first parameter (as returned by
<tt class="method">getplist()</tt>) of the form "<tt class="samp"><var>name</var>=<var>value</var></tt>" for the
given <var>name</var>.  If <var>value</var> is surrounded by quotes of the form
`<code>&lt;</code>...<code>&gt;</code>' or `<code>"</code>...<code>"</code>', these are removed.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1501' xml:id='l2h-1501' class="method">getencoding</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return the encoding specified in the
<span class="mailheader">Content-Transfer-Encoding:</span> message header.  If no such
header exists, return <code>'7bit'</code>.  The encoding is converted to
lower case.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1502' xml:id='l2h-1502' class="method">gettype</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return the message type (of the form "<tt class="samp"><var>type</var>/<var>subtype</var></tt>")
as specified in the <span class="mailheader">Content-Type:</span> header.  If no such
header exists, return <code>'text/plain'</code>.  The type is converted to
lower case.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1503' xml:id='l2h-1503' class="method">getmaintype</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
<dd>
Return the main type as specified in the <span class="mailheader">Content-Type:</span>
header.  If no such header exists, return <code>'text'</code>.  The main
type is converted to lower case.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-1504' xml:id='l2h-1504' class="method">getsubtype</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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Return the subtype as specified in the <span class="mailheader">Content-Type:</span>
header.  If no such header exists, return <code>'plain'</code>.  The subtype
is converted to lower case.
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